Outlook.com ready for release

Microsoft has announced that the e-mail service Outlook.com is ready for prime time. Since the release of Outlook.com last year as a preview, millions of people have already actively started using it, making it the world’s fastest growing e-mail service, going from...

DiData Pro-Am goes high tech with Microsoft

In what is believed to be the first technology deployment of its kind on the South African golfing circuit, Dimension Data and Microsoft South Africa have developed a unique experience using Windows 8 technology designed specifically for use at the 2013 Dimension Data...

Microsoft launches youth initiative

Unemployment – and especially youth unemployment – is rife on the African continent. With almost 200-million people aged between 15 and 24 in Africa today, the youth community represents more than 60% of the continent’s total population and accounts for...

8m PCs freed in botnet takedown

Microsoft and Symantec have brought down a global cybercrime operation, the Bamital botnet, but shutting down the servers at the heart of the botnet. PCs infected by the malware that linked them to the botnet were temporarily unable to search the Web, and the software...

Microsoft, Indigo deliver low-cost broadband

Microsoft, in collaboration with the government of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communications and Indigo Telecom, has announced the launch of a pilot project delivering low-cost wireless broadband access to previously unserved locations near Nanyuki and...